Originally posted by Digi
My thoughts on prayer, attached...
Yes, but what about those times the dogs were brutally murdered because of their barking? Seems like barkng has more of a negative effect than a positive one.
AHA!
And that happens to match up with that massive prayer study that they did. It had a slight negative effect on the "patients". We talked about it before. King Kandy took that to mean that no God to a Demiurge existed. Meaning, he was somewhere between "definitely no God exists or a God exists but it is closer to a Demiurge than the Judeo-Christian God."
Originally posted by dadudemon
Yes, but what about those times the dogs were brutally murdered because of their barking? Seems like barkng has more of a negative effect than a positive one.AHA!
And that happens to match up with that massive prayer study that they did. It had a slight negative effect on the "patients". We talked about it before. King Kandy took that to mean that no God to a Demiurge existed. Meaning, he was somewhere between "definitely no God exists or a God exists but it is closer to a Demiurge than the Judeo-Christian God."
Yeah, I think I recall that conversation. I definitely recall the study you're referencing. Of course, repeated data is the best kind, but it was the largest ever and was quite damning to prayer on an empirical level.
I feel like belief in prayer is one of those largely unassailable things, though. No one who strongly believes in prayer is doing so based on anything but feeling and intuition. Citing a study might as well be waving your arms to try to stop the ocean tides.